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Showing posts with label Hyndburn. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Michael Gove believes education should be subject to market forces

I have written many times to the Secretary of State for Department for Education Michael Gove  on the matter of unintended consequences of Academy schools and their freedom to set school roll numbers.

I have expressed careful and considered concern about the academisation
process in the past and the way that it can damage the local education
system if the problems it causes are not properly

Saturday, 27 April 2013

Remembering Workers Memorial Day & 68 lives lost at Moorfield Colliery in 1883

Workers Memorial Day at the pit head of Moorfield Colliery where 68 men and boys lost their lives in a terrible pit disaster.





ON THE morning of 7 November 1883 a terrible explosion ripped through the underground workings at the Moorfield Colliery, Altham.

The explosion resulted in the death of 68 men and boys, with numerous more receiving serious injuries. Over the following years many of